Joshua Beckman is the author of three books of poetry and a fourth, Your Time Has Come, is due out in the spring from Verse Press. A cd of his recent collaborations with the poet Matthew Rohrer, Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty just came out. He lives in Staten Island, New York.
Wayne Chambliss was raised in the United States and in Europe. He is a poet and a translator of poetry, prose, and criticism from sources in a number of languages including Russian, Italian, and Ancient Greek. His work is forthcoming in Syllogism, Fence, and jubilat, and will be featured in The Disappearing Pheasant: An Anthology of Italian Poetry 1950-2000 (Agincourt, 2004).
Adam Clay isn't bitter. He co-edits Typo Magazine and lives in the belly of America.
Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood & Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and a book of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000 (Scribner 2000), Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribner 2004), and Great American Prose Poems (Scribner 2003), among other places. He is living in Certaldo, Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers.
Ben Doyle is currently visiting assistant professor at Denison University. His first book was named Radio, Radio, and he has possibly recently completed a new manuscript, Period Style. You should check out his band, The Braille Drivers, who should be on tour this summer, but wait for the new stuff--it's way better than the old.
Stacey Duff's poems recently appear in Skanky Possum, Conjunctions, and 5Trope. A native of Arkansas, he has an MFA from Brown and teaches 20th Century American Literature and Film at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Jeff Encke is currently at work on his first two books of poetry and has written a doctoral dissertation entitled Manifestos: A Social History of Proclamation. Formerly on the faculty of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, he now lives in Seattle. Some of his poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, Salt Hill, and 3rd Bed.
Noah Eli Gordon co-edits baffling combustions, publishes the Braincase chapbook series & is the author of The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises 2003) & the e-book notes toward the spectacle, available online here.
Arielle Greenberg's first book, Given, was published by Verse Press in 2002, and New Michigan Press published Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials, a reality-mystery-bluegrass-courtroom-drama-crime-of-passion chapbook, in the fall of 2003. She began teaching in the poetry program at Columbia College in Chicago this fall.
Allen Grossman's latest books are How to Do Things with Tears (2001) and Sweet Youth (2002), both from New Directions. He is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at John Hopkins University.
Michael Heffernan teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Last year he took the train from Beijing to Inner Mongolia, looking for Xanadu. He found that Xanadu was a word in the grasslands, a shadow on a wall.
J.L. Jacobs was born in 1967 in a place Missionaries called Ultima Thule, Indian Territory. She grew up under the auspices of the settlement's oldest Midwife. She graduated from Brown University's MFA program in 1992 and is currently teaching writing at the University of Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in such journals as New American Writing, Talisman, New Orleans Review, American Letters & Commentary and Ploughshares. Other publications include a chapbook, Varieties of Inflorescence, Leave, 1992 and a full-length collection, The Leaves in Her Shoes, Lost Roads, 1999. Representative work appeared in American Poetry: The Next Generation from Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000.
W.B. Keckler's most recent book is Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the National Poetry Series (2002) and lies in wait for you at Amazon.com like a crocodile in the Nile mud. The best defense would be a credit card. Forthcoming books include My Husband, the Elegist and Some Things that Used to Make Me Salivate.
Robert Kelly's forthcoming books: Lapis a big collection of poems from Godine/Black Sparrow, The Language of Eden a long poem from Black Square. Threads is a sequence still in progress. The sections of Threads involve several syntactic and procedural constraints. Kelly teaches at Bard College, where he is co-director of the Writing Program in Poetry and Fiction.
John Koethe's most recent collection is North Point North: New and Selected Poems (Harper Collins, 2002). He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Jonathan Mayhew is a poet and Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1988. He has published two books and numerous articles and reviews on twentieth-century Spanish poetry, while also maintaining an active presence in the poetry blogosphere. His blogs include Bemsha Swing and Poemas con nombres propios.
Ander Monson edits the New Michigan Press and the magazine, DIAGRAM, among other projects. Find his recent work in places like Ploughshares, North American Review, and Gulf Coast.
Nathan Parker's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, La Petite Zine, The Canary, Taint, Adirondack Review, storySouth, and others. He lives with his beautiful pregnant wife, Christie, in Alabama. He is an assistant poetry editor for Black Warrior Review.
Alexei Parshchikov was born in 1954, not far from Vladivostok. He was raised in the Ukraine, and after secondary school entered the Kiev Academy of Agriculture. He spent two years as an agricultural scientist before entering the Moscow Institute of Literature. In 1993, he received an MA from Stanford University. Parshchikov is regarded as the major figure of the Metametaphorism movement. In the last two decades, his works have been translated into fifteen languages. His publications in English includes Blue Vitriol, translated by Michael Palmer, Michael Molnar and John High (Avec Books, 1994). He currently resides in Cologne.
Srikanth Reddy's first collection of poetry, Facts for Visitors, is forthcoming in April 2004 from the University of California Press. His poems have appeared in various journals, including Fence, Verse, jubilat, Grand Street, and APR. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and doctoral candidate in English at Harvard University, he is currently the poet-in-residence at the University of Chicago.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, Satellite, Nice Hat. Thanks (with Joshua Beckman), and the audio Cd Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (with Joshua Beckman). He lives in Brooklyn and is a poetry editor for Fence Magazine and Fence Books.
Of Jacques Roubaud, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop write, "From his first volume of poetry on ( E [Livre dont le titre est 'signe d'appartenance'] 1967), Jacques Roubaud has been a major force in French poetry for his intricately crafted brilliance and inventive formalism, often based on patterns from mathematics (his academic field), the game of Go, etc. Our poems are taken from his most recent book of poems, La forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas, que le coeur des humains, an elegy for a Paris that is no more and some of its inhabitants. Available in English from Dalkey Archive: Some Thing Black, The Plurality of Worlds According to Lewis, (trans. R. Waldrop), the novels, The Great Fire of London, Hortense is Abducted, Hortense in Exile (trans. D.Di Bernardi), and a children's novel, The Princess Hopy, or, The Tale of Labrador (trans. Bernard Hoepffner)."
Soraya Shalforoosh received her M.F.A, in Poetry from the New School. Her poems have appeared (or forthcoming) in journals such as Skanky Possum, The Marlboro Review, Good Foot, Shampoo, can we have our ball back, Unpleasant Event Schedule and Crux. Soraya lives in New York City.
Marcus Slease was born and raised in Portadown, N. Ireland. He teaches Existentialism to freshmen at UNC Greensboro. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in Typo, can we have our ball back, Spork, Gut Cult, DIAGRAM, and Hayden's Ferry Review.
Laura Solomon is the author of Bivouac (Slope Editions 2002). Her poems have appeared recently in Baffling Combustions, can we have our ball back?, La Petite Zine, Maisonneuve, Seneca Review and VOLT. She currently edits poetry for the online arts journal castagraf and teaches writing at UMass-Amherst where she is earning her MFA.
Keith Waldrop's recent books include The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press), Haunt (Instance Press), the trilogy: The Locality Principle, The Silhouette of the Bridge (America Award, 1997) and Semiramis, If I Remember (Avec Books), and the novel, Light while there Is Light (Sun & Moon). He has translated Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Paol Keineg, Dominique Fourcade, Pascal Quignard, and Jean Grosjean. He teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and is co-editor of Burning Deck Press.
Rosmarie Waldrop's new books of poems are Blindsight (New York: New Directions) and Love, Like Pronouns (Richmond, CA: Omnidawn), both 2003. Northwestern University Press has reprinted her two novels, The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter and A Form/of Taking/It All in one paperback. She has translated most of Edmond Jabés's work (her memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabés, is out from Wesleyan University Press) as well as volumes by Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and, from the German, Friederike Mayrsker, Elke Erb, Oskar Pastior.
Last night, Paul White dreamed: he had the feet of Nijinsky, the voice of his father, eroticism of oak, the voice of a crooner, eyes of his mother, one devoted hand of Josephine Romo·. When he woke up, there was Her by his side. And a wooden deck. To prance upon.
Tim Van Dyke lives and works in Florida. The poem "The Wolving Ritual" was partially inspired by the artwork of Grant Miller (email) and Jenny Manning (email).
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